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Electric Power Generation in Japan prior to World War II

A look at various sources of energy in Japan prior to World War 2. Japanese coal miners ride railcars down into a mine. View of miner using pneumatic drill to cut away coal at the face. Steam shovel bucket loading bituminous coal into open rail car. Animated map showing locations of Japan's coal mining areas in Kyushu and Hokkaido and small deposits in Honshu. Scene shifts to a river and water power generation site. View of turbines in water-powered electric generating plant. Generator buildings at side of river. Electric power transmission facilities. View from below a dam of a hydroelectric plant in central Honshu. Pipes carrying water down a mountainside. Reservoirs for storing water. Animated map depicting meager oil deposits in Japan and showing some of its oil processing and storage facilities.

Date: 1938
Duration: 1 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025099
Joseph Clark Grew, the United States Ambassador to Japan, works in his study and sits with his family in Japan.

Joseph Clark Grew, the United States Ambassador to Japan, in Japan. Grew arrives in his study room. He talks over a telephone and writes on a paper. Grew picks up the paper and again make a call. He then lights his pipe. Grew sits with his family including his daughter and two children. He shows a typewriter to one of the children. Grew's daughter Mrs. Lilla Cabot Grew talks.

Date: 1938, September
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046841
Events surrounding the 1938 German annexation of Austria

Goosestepping German troops parade. A group of German Panzer I Ausf. A tanks armed with twin 7.92 mm machine guns, are seen crossing a field. A squadron of German airplanes flies overhead in formation. Spectators watch as Austrian Army troops assemble and drill in Vienna, Austria Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg speaking before the Austrian Federal Diet on 24 February , 1938. He rejects Hitler's plans for Austria, saying: "…Austria will go thus far and no further." Closeups of some Austrian citizens. German troops entering Austria, during the "Anschluss" on 12 March 1938. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain at Heston Aerodrome in London, England, departing on 29 September, 1938, to meet with Adolf Hitler in Munich, Germany. His aircraft taking off. View of anti-aircraft gun set up in London, with Big Ben and Parliament building in background. Workmen with shovels breaking ground for defenses in London. A woman wearing a gas mask, carries a baby in England. Prime Minister Chamberlain speaking at Heston airport upon his return from Munich, on 16 September. 1938. Views of broken shop windows in Berlin, Germany, following the "Kristallnacht" violent anti-Jewish actions by Nazi Brown shirts on November 9 and 10, 1938. Jewish refugee men, women, and children gather around a fire and outdoor kitchen in an encampment on a field. They warm themselves by the fire. Two women pump water from a well in the field. Closeups of some of the people, including a small child. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt at a table with members of his cabinet,

Date: 1938
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047403
Women sew Senninbari belts and burn incense sticks to god Rokujizo in Sensō-ji, Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan.

Sensō-ji (also known as Asakusa Kannon Temple) in Tokyo, Japan. People in front of the Sensō-ji temple (2 Chome-3-1 Asakusa, Taito City, Tokyo 111-0032, Japan). Women sew Senninbari belts which are to be sent to soldiers in China. A woman with a child on her back also sews in the Buddhist temple. In Senko Booth, women burn incense to god Rokujizo who symbolizes pity. A woman prays. Japanese soldiers of the Young Men Youth Movement parade through the streets coming from the temple.

Date: 1938, September
Duration: 1 min 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050883
Women of the National Defense Association parade to Sensō-ji temple in Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan.

Sensō-ji (also known as Asakusa Kannon Temple) in Tokyo, Japan. Women of the National Defense Association parade to Sensō-ji temple (2 Chome-3-1 Asakusa, Taito City, Tokyo 111-0032, Japan) for service. Women in the front of the parade are carrying flags. The parade nears the Buddhist temple, stops and bows.

Date: 1938, September
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050884
Canned crab tins displayed in Japan.

Steamers underway at sea in Japan. The flag of Japan at steamer. Logo of Three Diamond Brand on steamer. Various countries signs on map. The map explains the data of cases of USA, Hawaii, Canada, England, Australia, France, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and others countries for year of 1924-1927. Tins of 'Three Diamond, Fancy CrabMeat'. Tins of 'Icebond Brand, Selected CrabMeat' displayed. Three Diamond Brand of canned crab and logo of Three Diamond.

Date: 1938
Duration: 4 min 0 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024806